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Young C. S. Lewis
Photo: A young C. S. Lewis, in a science from The Most Reluctant Convert.

Humanity: Natural Selection’s Ultimate Challenge According to C. S. Lewis 

How could a blind material process produce man’s unique capabilities of reason and conscience?  Read More ›
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Image credit: Neanderthal-Museum, Mettmann, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

De-Humanizing Neanderthals: A Darwinist Dog that Won’t Hunt

Growing evidence suggests Neanderthals buried their dead, employed technology, and had a brain size equal to or even slightly larger than ours. Read More ›
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Photo: A Neanderthal, by Paul Hudson, via Flickr (cropped).

Human Origins — The Scientific Imagination at Play

Not surprisingly, the transition from ape to man is the first, second, and third image produced by a Google image search for the term "evolution." Read More ›
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Jerry Coyne
Photo: Jerry Coyne on The Dave Rubin Show, via YouTube (screenshot).

Doublethink: Censor of the Year Calls for Free Speech

Jerry Coyne, who punched down, canceled Eric Hedin, and never apologized, deplores what he calls the “denial-of-free-speech movement.” Read More ›
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Human-Chimp Similarity: What Is It and What Does It Mean?

For years we’ve been told that human and chimp DNA is some 99 percent identical. Is that true? Read More ›
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Photo: “Tree of Life,” a cave painting from Borneo, Indonesia, by Lhfage at English Wikipedia [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons.

There Is No Such Thing as a Fossil Mind

We are free to accept ad hoc evo psych explanations if we wish. Like astrology and palm reading, they make good conversation pieces. Read More ›
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Monkey Bias: New Science Uprising Episode Out Now!

Properly considered, we are told, human beings are just a species of chimpanzee anyway. Read More ›
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Tomorrow: New Science Uprising Episode on Human Origins

A view open to intelligent design can follow the evidence freely. It does not require a particular narrative of how humanity arose. Read More ›
Casey Luskin
Photo: Casey Luskin in South Africa.

For Dr. Casey Luskin, a New Online Home — And a New Book!

Chemist James Tour at Rice University calls the book a “heroic encyclopedic work.” Read More ›
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Photo source: Casey Luskin.

Major “Ibero-American Intelligent Design Congress” Reaches the Spanish-Speaking World

I had fantastic translation assistance from a Summer Seminar alumnus and valued colleague, Quezia Salgado, and my talk went well. Read More ›

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